The following statement was posted on the Hands Off Uhuru website on Dec. 17. 2024;Workers World has supported the movement to free the Uhuru 3. African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela outside courthouse where sentencing hearing took place, Dec. 16, 2024. Credit: Fight Back News African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela outside courthouse…
Part 1 discussed “Digital labor and material.” (workers.org/2024/04/78192/) Part 2 discussed “Labor under surveillance.” (workers.org/2024/05/78468/) Part 3 discussed “The media of digital capital.” (workers.org/2024/10/81336/) This part takes up a discussion of how algorithmic technologies are used in the context of imperialist exploitation and military operations. Graphic: Zoran Svilar: fromprinttopixel.ch/en/the-power-of-images/digital-colonialism In a digital landscape marked by…
Ever since the news broke on March 15 of two consecutive mass shootings at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, corporate media has been determined to establish that suspect Brenton Tarrant acted alone in the terrorist attacks that took the lives of 50 innocent Muslim worshippers and wounded 50…
The massacre of 49 people including children at a mosque in New Zealand has not come out of the blue — it follows the mainstreaming of the same ideology that inspired the first major far-right terrorist attack of this decade: the 2011 massacre in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik. Brenton Tarrant, who live-streamed his attack on the…
WASHINGTON — Following the horrific shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, statements of solidarity and sympathy have poured in from around the world, condemning the act and remembering the lives of the 50 people, including several children, who lost their lives. Yet, not everyone expressing sympathy has been deemed sincere by those in…
This week’s attack on two mosques in New Zealand reflects a paradigm shift: the erosion of liberal values and the rise of civilisationalism at the expense of the nation-state. So do broader phenomena like widespread Islamophobia with the crackdown on Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang as its extreme, and growing ant-Semitism These phenomena are fuelled by…
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND — What is without question the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s history took place on Friday when shooters, 28-year-old Australian Brenton Tarrant among them, opened fire at two Christchurch mosques. Four, including Tarrant, have been arrested for the heinous act, which claimed at least 49 innocent lives. Tarrant was responsible for…
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND — If we were to truly honor the late, great Stephen Hawking, perhaps it would pay to remind ourselves of the principles the acclaimed physicist really stood for. One of those principles was Hawking’s commitment to the boycott of Israel in response to Israel’s longstanding policy of egregiously violating the rights of millions…
The following statement was posted on the Hands Off Uhuru website on Dec. 17. 2024;Workers World has supported the movement to free the Uhuru 3. African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela outside courthouse where sentencing hearing took place, Dec. 16, 2024. Credit: Fight Back News African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela outside courthouse…
Part 1 discussed “Digital labor and material.” (workers.org/2024/04/78192/) Part 2 discussed “Labor under surveillance.” (workers.org/2024/05/78468/) Part 3 discussed “The media of digital capital.” (workers.org/2024/10/81336/) This part takes up a discussion of how algorithmic technologies are used in the context of imperialist exploitation and military operations. Graphic: Zoran Svilar: fromprinttopixel.ch/en/the-power-of-images/digital-colonialism In a digital landscape marked by…
Home » Human needs before profits » Blame billionaires, not migrants – Keep New York a sanctuary city Solidarity with migrants demonstration, New York City, Dec. 18, 2024. By Hugo East New York City — Supporters of immigrant rights formed a picket line in front of New York City Hall Dec. 18, International Migrants Day,…
Home » Im/migrants and Refugees » Protesters to Biden: ‘Dismantle the Deportation Machine’ Over 100 people rallied at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall next to the Liberty Bell on Dec. 18, International Migrants Day, to pressure the Biden Administration to dismantle the deportation machine before he leaves office. The demonstration was organized by a coalition of groups…
